Our Almosts

Not every story begins with love at first sight.
Some begin with almosts.
With misunderstandings.
With stolen glances across classrooms, silent jealousy, soft moments that linger too long, and two people slowly learning how to heal.

Reyansh Malhotra
No, he's not some cold billionaire CEO.
And definitely not a mafia boss hiding in the shadows.
He's just a Communication Design student at Laurdes University, Mumbai.
The kind of boy who looks like he walked straight out of a Pinterest board. Funny, effortlessly charming, surrounded by friends wherever he goes, and blessed with a warm family that keeps him grounded.
Academically? Pretty average.
Socially? Impossible to ignore.

Rivya Sen
Quiet, shy, and reserved?
Not quite.
Bubbly and sunshine-like?
Not exactly that either.
Rivya is her own kind of complicated.
An ambivert who talks endlessly with the people she trusts, but keeps the rest of the world at arm's length.
A Fine Arts student at Laurdes University studying on scholarship, carrying dreams much bigger than her circumstances.
She comes from a middle-class family where love isn't always spoken out loud... and some relationships are better left untouched.

Two completely different people.
Two different worlds.
So what happens when Reyansh randomly ends up sitting beside Rivya one day for a small, forgettable reason...
and that one seat turns into something neither of them expected?
Maybe this isn't a story about falling in love instantly.
Maybe it's about slowly becoming each other's safe place.